熟能生巧,学英语就得靠天天练习。华尔街英语外教指出:培养一种习惯非常重要。
Everyday Practice
Psychologists say that it takes fifteen to thirty days for a new habit to catch on. That means that if you want to start waking up early every day, you need to work really hard at waking up early for the first two or three weeks. After that, waking up early will be easy.
The same goes for learning a new language! The only difference is that language practice is learning many new habits, not only one. When you speak a language you need to learn a new habit for everything you say. Instead of “那个让我很生气”, you say “That makes me angry”. It doesn’t hurt to learn how sentences like that work, either – the grammar.
With this in mind, learning a language requires CONSISTENCY. Every day you must practice for an hour or two. And if you want to learn fast, practice for four or five hours. If you only practice once a week, it will take you years. If you practice for four or five hours a day, it will surely take only months, or, if you focused on it, it could take only weeks!
(作者:华尔街英语外教Rand Herz)
英语天天练
心理学家说一个习惯(habit)的养成需要十五到三十天。也就是说,如果你想养成每天都能早起的习惯,你就需要在开始的一两周努力让自己醒得早一点。然后,早起就会很容易了。
这个方法同样适用于学语言!唯一不一样的是练习语言不仅是在培养一个习惯,而是在培养很多的新习惯。当你在说一门语言的时候,你需要养成在一门语言中表达每件事都要会的新的习惯。比如你会用英语习惯表达说That makes me angry,来代替中文的同样意思的习惯表达“那个让我很生气。”用学习语言表达习惯的方式来学习英语句子和语法如何构成也是同样可以的。
脑子里除了要有学习语言表达的习惯外,学好一门语言还需要持续性(consistency)。每天你必须练习一个或两个小时的英语。并且你想要尽快地学会,就要练习四五个小时。如果你只是一周练习一次,那学好一门语言就会花上几年的时间。如果你每天练习四五个小时,理所当然的只要几个月,你就能学会一门语言,甚至,如果你集中时间,精力在学习语言上,只要几个礼拜你就能学会。
(翻译由华尔街英语提供,仅供参考)
Everyday Listening
Listening may be one of the easiest language skills, next to reading, writing and speaking. Listening is utterly passive. You only have to use your ears. You can do it with your eyes closed. You can do it anywhere!
It's easy to find English material online to listen to; especially at Apple's iTunes store. There are plenty of free podcasts there that you can download as an .mp3 file and put onto your computer or MP3 player.
Check some out and try to get in 15 to 20 minutes of listening practice, or more, a day! Everyday practice is essential to improvement.
(作者:华尔街英语外教Rand Herz)
天天听力
听力可能是最早期的语言技巧之一,其次还有阅读,写作以及口语。听力完全是接受信息的行为。你只需要使用自己的耳朵。你可以闭上自己的眼睛做听力锻炼,你也可以在任何一个地方做听力锻炼!
在网上找听力材料是很容易的;尤其在苹果的iTunes商店。那里有许多免费的音频,你可以下载成mp3格式,存到你的电脑上或者是放进MP3播放器里。
去找一些音频,然后做15到20分钟的听力练习,甚至每天再多做一点练习!每天练习对英语的进步是很重要的。
(翻译由华尔街英语提供,仅供参考)